I cross compile the libel 0.8.13 on my ubuntu 12.04lts. I used the below command to configure it. The compile process is success and installed it correct. But inside the include/libelf/sys_elf.h, it includes a missing header file (elf.h). Just comment it out, and it will works. 2014/08/23

I have to package my kernel into a fat partition and load it up using grub, but mac doesn’t has a mkfs.vfat and “mount loopback” command. So I am creating a small programing using https://github.com/waldheinz/fat32-lib/ to manipulate the fat image by myself. So far these two small program can read & write a fat image: Read […] 2014/08/17

Adding file to newlib’s sys folder and make it compile, you need to modify the Makefile.in, see below 2014/08/16

All the .h file in the sys directory will be included when compiling the files in your sys/XXX. They (sys/*.h) will not be copied to the output directoy, that mean they are just used for compile only. 2014/08/09

A little bit better – Showing the MBR Here is the java code to read MBR out: 2014/07/28

I was fixing the PSE and PAE page table display for GKD, I found out Linux using 4M page to map large address space and it uses 4K page to map broken space. So advance OS should mix use of 4K and 4M page.   Now GKD supports PSE=1 (4M page) 2014/07/27

I think i am under dns attack, in my /var/log/message i keep seeing these. Someone is using over 2000 ip to lookup my dns server. 2014/07/12

GKD dependency tree graph 2014/07/11

To migrate VMs to different compute node is easy, simply hold your ctrl key and select VMs, drag & drop them to a new compute server. But now it support more feature, when you release the mouse, it will popup a windows to select “migrate now” or “thru titan script”. If you select titan script, […] 2014/07/11

Openstack 4th party, i got a counter to demo Titan, thanks Cyberport. Titan language will be demo after September. People seems more interested in Titan management tool rather than the Titan portal.   2014/07/04

Take a look line 170 from https://code.google.com/p/tightvncpanel/source/browse/trunk/src/main/java/com/glavsoft/viewer/swing/Surface.java This ((Graphics2D) g).setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY); make g.drawImage(offscreenImage,0,0,null); runs very slow on Mac Retina. Solve: set the value to “VALUE_RENDER_SPEED” instead of  VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY   2014/07/01

a good free usenet server news.aioe.org 2014/06/30

I spent lot of time to optimize the startup speed of my Java app from 10 seconds down to 6 seconds in my 2012 Mac air. I changed to MacBook 13″, the startup time become <=3. That proves the hard disk speed is the key to optimize the startup time. I am facing a new […] 2014/06/29

How to use PFSBuilder This tutorial work in windows/linux/mac Step 1) Download the jar https://www.dropbox.com/s/do0ygc4z9dbxlwx/PFSBuilder-20140619.jar Step 2) make sure you have java in your PC Compress directory into PFS image Step 1) Make sure PFSBuilder.jar is in your current directory Step 2) Create a folder call “input” and put some files and directories in there Step […] 2014/06/28

After spent 3 days to play the FUSE and macFUSE, i finally connected Peter-file-system (https://code.google.com/p/pfsbuilder) to my mac/linux machine. It is quite simple and straightforward, I write a FUSE program that create a JVM and load my PFS stub (writhed in Java), every FUSE function calls will route to the stub and manipulates the PFS […] 2014/06/23

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The best way to trace IIS error 500 is to enable all log detail on screen, edit your web.config to 2014/06/19

Need 2 more months will finish everything 2014/06/10

I nearly don’t understand the code I wrote 6 months ago about the vnc connection. It is a little complex, the basic idea is : Titan server create a proxy server to the kvm’s vnc. Titan server is using java object stream to communicate with client, it wrap all the bytes from the object stream […] 2014/06/10

VBoxManage guestproperty get “vmname” “/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP” | awk ‘{ print $2 }’ 2014/06/09

Developing the titan portal, which is for hosting company’s customers. If you want to build a hosting company using openstack, you definitely need a portal for your customer to provide operations. 2014/06/03

Just buy one more 2nd hand server. Everything are the same including the OS, except one using 8x2GB ram and the other using 4x4GB ram. I found out 4GB ram has lower temperature than 2GB ram. I guess is because in 4GB-ram-block server, it has more space between each ram (because i only used 4 […] 2014/06/01

Just bought a 2nd hand HP server (8core + 16GB ram), cost me $2630 HKD. One 1TB 2.5″ hard disk cost me $450. Total $3080. It reboot only take 20 seconds, dell needs 5 mins (CRAZY!!!)   2014/05/20

Someone asked me in email about using elf-dependency-walker to analyst library or executable in linux. I found out android is using ELF format for its libraries or executables too. So the rest is simple. Please download the android emulator, within the directory there is the system image, which contain the file system. You can see in […] 2014/05/13

I am using ubuntu 12.04 64 bits and trying compile ffmpeg and got this error: libavfilter/x86/vf_pullup.asm:59: error: invalid combination of opcode and operands libavfilter/x86/vf_pullup.asm:138: error: invalid combination of opcode and operands libavfilter/x86/vf_pullup.asm:175: error: invalid combination of opcode and operands To solve this, add “–disable-mmx” to your ./configure 2014/05/13

These are the basic usage of SOX This script will convert ffmpeg HLS into “live streaming HLS” The above script has to run with ffmpeg: /root/download/ffmpeg-2.1.4/ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:0,0 -strict experimental -acodec libmp3lame -map 0 -f segment -segment_list out.m3u8 -segment_format libmp3lame -segment_time 0.5 -segment_list_flags +live ‘a%05d.mp3’ 2014/05/08

newlib’s reentrant system calls will map to non-reentrant by default. The reentrant version of open() can be found in newlib-2.1.0/newlib/libc/reent/openr.c As you can see, it will call _open which is defined in newlib-2.1.0/newlib/libgloss/libnosys/open.c . So if you don’t write your reentrant functions, it will jump to non-reentrant by default. For OS developer want to implement […] 2014/05/04

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